Support for vises.



V. & E. TERRY.

SUPPORT FOR VISESx APPLICATION FILED APR.22. 1914.

Patented July 27, 1915.

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'rinrrnn s'rnrns rarnivrorrrea v A VICTORIA. TERRY AND EDWARD TERRY, 0FBRIXTON, ENGLAND.

SUPPORT vFor. visas.

Application led Apri1`22, 1914. Serial No.. 333,627?.

T0 all 'whom it may concern .1 i v Beit known ythat we, VICTORIATnnnrand EDWARD TERRY, subjects 0f the King of Great Britain, residingat Milton Hall, 117 Loughboroughv Park, Brixton, England, have inventednew and useful lmprovements in Supports for Vises, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention has reference to mountings or supports for vises and theobject we have in view is to provide improved means where-y by ka viseor similar work holding device may be readily moved into and retained inany desired position either upon the top ofV the workbench or upon thevertical face Lor end of said bench thereby facilitating access to thework held by saidvise.

In order that our invention may be readily understood and carried intoeffect by those skilled in the art to whichit appertains we will nowproceed to describe the same fully for which purpose reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 represents a plan view of a 'device embodying this invention.Fig. 2 is a section taken along the line a-a of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a viewillustrating the vise occupying a position against the vertical front orend of the workbench.

ln thefpreferred embodiment of the in-` vention we provide a bed plateformed in two parts, 1, 2 and connected by a hinge 3 whereby the parts 2may be dropped into a vertical position. The bedplate is provided withupstanding edges 4 upon three of its sides the inner walls of saidflanges being undercut as seen more clearly at 5 in Fig. 3. The portion1 of said bed-plate is provided with two longitudinal slots', 7 and alsowith abolt hole 8 (Fig. 2) whereby it may be pivotally connected to thework bench when desired. A number of bolt holes or recesses 9 and 10 areprovided in the portions 1 and 2 respectively of the bedplate for apurpose which will hereinafter appear.

Mounted to slide longitudinally in and revolve upon the kaforesaid bedplate is a circular turntable 11 the edge of which is beveled to engagethe undercut portions 5 of the flanges 4 thus ypreventing it from 'beinglifted vertically from the bedplate.k yThe turntable 11 is provided witha spring controlled stud or bolt 12 adapted to take into any of theholes or recesses 9 10 in the bed- Specicaton of Letters Patent.

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plate when the turntable has lbeen rotated into the desired position.

The vise or other work holding device 13 which may be of any appropriateconstruction is positively secured to the turntable 11 as for instanceby means of the bolts and nuts 14.

The operation of our improved device is as follows: The bedplate 1 issecured kto the work-bench either by means of abolt passed through thebolt hole S-if it is `desired to secure it pivotally to the bench-#or bymeans of bolts passed through` the slots 6 and 7 if it is desired toallow of longitudinal movement of the bedplate upon the bench. lThe vise13 having been bolted t0 the circular turntable 11 this latter isengaged in the bed plate byl sliding it in from the open end 15.(Fig. 1) the beveled edge of the turntable 11 taking under theoverhanging walls 5 of the bedplate. The turntable with the attachedvise can now be moved lengthwise of the 'bedplate'or the-vise may becaused to occupy any angular position with respect to the bedplate bysimply rotating it and the turntable bodily the spring and stud 12 being lifted and then dropped into any one of the recesses 9 in thebedplate thus holding the turntable in the desired position.

Itis sometimes necessary or convenient that a vise should be placedvertically that is to say arranged upon the vertical front or end of thebench and this may be readily 4effected by means'of our improved device.

against the end wall or iiange 4 of the por-V tion 2-of the bedplate.rThe bedplate is then moved along the bench until the hinge 3 c0- incideswith the end of the bench when the portion 2 of said bedplate isVdropped into the position indicated in Fig. 3. The recesses 10 serve asimilar purpose to the recesses 9 above described that is to say theyare adapted to receive the spring bolt 12 so allowing the Avise to beadjusted in any desiredv angular position. In Figs. 1 and 3 we haveindicated in broken lines two of such angular positions of the turntableand vise.

It will be seen that under our invention we have provided a constructionwhich will admit `of a vise or cramp being redily moved into any desiredposition either upon the top of a work bench or upon the vertical frontor ends with aminimumof-.laborand ex nierous changes of constructionand'operation may be made Without departing fromy the spirit and scopeof the invention and We therefore'donot Wish'to be understood aslimiting ourselves by thepesitive terms employed in connection With .thedescription excepting Ysuch as lthe 'fstate off :the 1 lart may require.v

Vhat Weclaim and desire -to secure f by Letters Patent Aofthe UnitedStatesv is V`1.1n1vises the combination With a substantially rectangularbed plate in tWo parts hinged together and having vmeans whereby it'maybeslidably andfrotatably securedtoa Workbench, iaturiitable slidably androtatably'inounted in said bed plate a pairy of clamping j aWssecured tosaid turntableandmeans 'for 'fixing said f'turntable and bed= platetogether in' any ofseveral positions of adjustment. n

2. Invises a substantially rectangular bed plate in two parts, ahingeconnecting said parts together, meansfin one part of said bed plate forf slidably vand .rotatablyl securing it to' a Workbench, a turntableslidably and rotatably mounted in fsaid .bed plate, a pairI of clampingfjaWs car'ried by said turntable,v and a spring bolt oriXing said turn-Y standing undercut flanges on three of its sides,

a circular turntable having its edge beveled to engage said undercutlanges whereby it may be slidably and rotatably engaged withsaidbedplate, a'pair of clamping jaws carried by said turntable meansfor Xing said turntable and said vbed plate together in any ofl'several' positions' of adjustment and means forslidably and rotatablyvattaching vsaid bed plate to a Work bench.

4. ln vises asubstantially rectangular bed plate intiv'o parts, a hingeconnecting said partsl'together, means in one part of said bed plate forslidably land. rotatably securingit tofa 'work benehJ aturntablelslidably and rotatably mountedinl said bed plate, vapairoffclampin'g jaws carried by said'turntable, a springboltlcarried bysaid turntableV and means on both parts'oii'said bed plate cooperatingwith said Ispring bolt `whereby said turntableand bed plate'may be fixedin`any ofseveral positions of adjustment.

VICTORIA TERRY. EDWARD TERRY. Witnesses:

A.v E. WHrrE, y D. WEsToo'T'r.

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